I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
TERTULLIANIf the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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